Iran on Monday rejected Israeli and Saudi claims that the Islamic Republic was a destabilizing force in the region, saying that it came as no surprise that Jerusalem and Riyadh share the same views.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi made the comments after both Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir each said at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday that Iran constitutes a threat to each of their countries, has not moderated its behavior in the wake of the 2015 nuclear deal and should face renewed economic pressure from the international community.

While the Israeli and Saudi ministers stopped short of saying they would cooperate to thwart Iran, Qassemi said that Jerusalem and Riyadh are already working “hand in glove” in the Middle East and their matching assessments given on Sunday came as no surprise.

The parallelism between the positions of the Saudi foreign minister and the Israeli war minister on Iran is not coincidental. Many instances of evidence indicate coordination between the two regimes in regional cases, Iranian official news agency Press TV quoted Qassemi as saying.

The Iranian official said that Liberman’s and Jubeir’s claims against Iran reflected their countries’ “painful desperation.”

Both regimes think they should stir the international atmosphere against Iran as a means of making up for their multitudinous defeats and frustrations in the region, he charged.

Qassemi said that Israel’s attempts to enlist a Muslim country in its efforts against Iran were “pathetic.”

In addition to Liberman and Jubeir, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif also spoke at Sunday’s Munich Security Conference. While Liberman called for an alliance with Sunni states, Jubeir did not directly respond when asked if he envisions a coalition with Israel against Tehran.

Jubeir, who spoke after Liberman and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlet Cavusoglu, pointedly rejected a new Iranian call for a dialogue with Sunni Arab Gulf states, telling the conference that the Islamic Republic is trying to upend the order in the Middle East and seeks the destruction of Saudi Arabia.

The Iranians speak of wanting to turn a new page, wanting to look forward, not backward. This is great, but what about the present? he asked. We cant ignore what they are doing in the region. We cant ignore their constitution which calls for the export of the revolution. How can one deal with a nation whose intent is to destroy us?

Liberman, meanwhile, accused Iran of trying to undermine Saudi Arabia and termed Maj.-Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Force, the No.1 terrorist in the world.

If you ask me, What is the biggest news in the Middle East? I think that [for] the first time since 1948 the moderate Arab world, Sunni world, understands that the biggest threat for them is not Israel, not Jews and not Zionism, but Iran and Iranian proxies, Liberman said, pointing to Hezbollah in Lebanon, Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip and the Houthi militia in Yemen.

Ben Lynfield and Anna Ahronheim contributed to this report.

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MUNICH U.S. Republican senators plan to introduce legislation to impose further sanction on Iran, accusing it of violating U.N. Security Council resolutions by testing ballistic missiles and acting to “destabilize” the Middle East, a U.S. senator said Sunday.

“I think it is now time for the Congress to take Iran on directly in terms of what theyve done outside the nuclear program,” Senator Lindsey Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told the Munich Security Conference.

Graham said he and other Republicans would introduce measures to hold Iran accountable for its actions.

Tensions between Tehran and Washington have risen since a Iranian ballistic missile test which prompted U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to impose sanctions on individuals and entities linked to the country’s Revolutionary Guards.

“Iran is a bad actor in the greatest sense of the word when it comes to the region. To Iran, I say, if you want us to treat you differently then stop building missiles, test-firing them in defiance of U.N. resolution and writing ‘Death to Israel’ on the missile. That’s a mixed message,” Graham said.

Senator Christopher Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the same panel there was nothing preventing Congress from imposing sanctions beyond those that were lifted as a result of the 2016 nuclear agreement with Iran.

Murphy, a Democrat, told the panel that he had backed the nuclear deal in the explicit understanding that it would not prevent Congress from taking actions against Iran outside the nuclear issue.

“There’s going to be a conversation about what the proportional response is,” Murphy said, referring to Iran’s missile test. “But I don’t necessarily think there’s going to be partisan division over whether or not we have the ability as a Congress to speak on issues outside of the nuclear agreement.”

Murphy said the United States needed to decide whether it wanted to take a broader role in the regional conflict.

“We have to make a decision whether we are going to get involved in the emerging proxy war in a bigger way than we are today, between Iran and Saudi,” he said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Java Zarf told the conference earlier on Sunday that Iran did not respond well to sanctions or threats.

(Reporting by Andrea Shalal and John Irish. Editing by Jane Merriman)

BAGHDAD/SOUTH OF MOSUL, Iraq U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Sunday launched a ground offensive to dislodge Islamic State militants from their remaining stronghold in Mosul, in the western part of the city, and put an end to their ambitions for territorial rule in Iraq.

KUALA LUMPUR Four North Korean suspects in the murder of the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un fled Malaysia on the day he was attacked at Kuala Lumpur airport and apparently killed by a fast-acting poison, police said on Sunday.

BEIRUT Syrian government forces fired rockets at a rebel-held area on Damascus’s outskirts on Sunday, pressing an attack that began the day before and has killed up to 16 people, a medical worker and war monitors said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif said Sunday that Iran would never seek to build a nuclear weapon, taking an apparent shot at Israel for being the true nuclear-armed actor endangering the region.

Without naming Israel specifically, Zarif said at the Munich Security Council that there were certain non-members of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty who were spreading accusations about the Iranian nuclear threat.

“They have the audacity” to talk about the Iranian nuclear threat when they are “the destabilizing force in the region,” Zarif said.

“We will never produce nuclear weapons, period,” Zarif said. The Iranian foreign minister added that Iran had committed to this in the nuclear deal signed with world powers, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), but has yet to receive the reciprocal fulfilling of the deal from the other side. “The international community still owes us,” Zarif stated.

In apparent response to US President Donald Trump’s comments that he was putting Iran “on notice” over ballistic missile tests last month, Zarif stated that, “We do not respond well to threats.”

Zarif said that under so-called “crippling sanctions,” intended to curb Iran’s construction of centrifuges for enriching uranium, Iran had gone from having 200 centrifuges to having some 20,000 centrifuges.

“You don’t build a secret nuclear facility if you don’t want to build a nuclear weapon,” he added.

Graham said that Iran was “a bad actor in the greatest sense of the word when it comes to the region,” calling Tehran out specifically for supporting Hezbollah and writing “Death to Israel” on its missiles.

“I think it it is now time for the Congress to take Iran on directly in terms of what theyve done outside the nuclear program,” Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee stated.

Graham said he and other Republicans would introduce measures to hold Iran accountable for its actions.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman was originally supposed to speak on the same panel as Zarif, however the event was changed and he spoke later in the day after the Iranian foreign minister.

The defense minister accused Iran of trying to undermine stability in every country in the Middle East.

Liberman called the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, Qassem Suleimani, “the number one terrorist in the world.”

Liberman said that Israel has not seen more moderate behavior from Iran since the signing of the JCPOA. To the contary, he stated, since the signing of the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, Israel has seen: a competition organized in Tehran for the best Holocaust denial cartoon, with a prize of $50,000; parades in Tehran featuring ballistic missiles with Hebrew inscriptions, reading ‘Israel must be wiped out’; a State Department report finding that Iran is the number one state sponsor of terror in the world; Iranian development of ballistic missiles in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 2231; the persecution of Iran’s ethnic and religious minorities; and 600 executions in 2016, often with little or no due process of law.

The defense minister said that the Iran nuclear deal was “an attempt to avoid reality,” and we were seeing similar results to what the nuclear deal with North Korea has yielded.

He called for world powers to enforce a policy of economic pressure, tough policy and following through on UN resolutions, such as in the case of Iran carrying out ballistic missile tests.

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister also accused Tehran of being the main sponsor of terrorism in the world and a destabilizing force in the Middle East.

“Iran remains the single main sponsor of terrorism in the world,” Adel al-Jubeir told delegates at the Munich Security Conference. “Its determined to upend the order in Middle East … (and) until and unless Iran changes its behavior it would be very difficult to deal with a country like this.”

Al-Jubeir said Iran was propping up the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, funding the Houthi separatists in Yemen and violent groups across the region. He said the international community needed to set clear “red lines” to halt Iran’s actions.

Iran is continuing its verbal attacks on the United States, with the latest comments coming on Saturday from Mohammad Pakpour, a commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

Speaking at a press conference in Tehran and quoted by the semiofficial Fars news agency, the commander warned American officials to be wise and stop threatening Iran with military aggression.

“U.S. statesmen should be very wise and avoid threatening Iran because the entire world has admitted this fact that the Americans cannot do such a thing,” said Pakpour, who added that attacking Iran would be unwise.

Tensions between Washington and Iran have risen in recent weeks, after the Trump administration imposed new sanctions on 25 individuals and companies connected to Iran’s ballistic missile program and those providing support to the Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Qods Force.

The sanctions came in response to a ballistic missile test conducted by Iran last week, in violation of UN Resolution 2231, which bars Iran from conducting ballistic missile tests for eight years and which went into effect after the nuclear deal between Iran and the six world powers was signed.

Irans Foreign Ministry reacted angrily to the sanctions, vowing that it too would ensure “legal restrictions” were imposed on the “American individuals and companies which have a role in aiding extremist and terrorist groups or contribute to the suppression and murder of the defenseless people in the region.

The countrys Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, later dismissed calls from the Trump administration to cease the countrys ballistic missile tests, and said that Trump had showed the “true face” of America.

Iran has also threatened to attack Israel in response to an American attack on Iran. A senior Iranian official recently threatened his country would immediately strike Israel if the United States “makes a mistake” noting that “only 7 minutes is needed for the Iranian missile to hit Tel Aviv.”

The United States will stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons that can be used against it or Israel, Vice President Mike Pence told the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, just days after meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.

Under President [Donald] Trump, the US will remain fully committed to ensuring that Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon capable of threatening our country [or] our allies in the region, especially Israel, Pence said.

The issue of Irans threat to the region, Israel and the US was a priority in the series of high-level meetings held in Washington last week, as Netanyahu made his first visit to the Capitol since Trump was inaugurated last month.

Netanyahu plans to brief the cabinet about his trip at its weekly meeting on Sunday, before he departs for Australia.

While in Washington, Netanyahu spoke with Trump, Pence and congressmen about the dangers of Irans nuclear program and his belief that the deal the Obama administration and five other world powers worked out with Tehran in 2015 to curb its nuclear capacity doesnt mitigate that threat.

While the Obama administration had dismissed Netanyahus concerns, Trump and his administration are supportive.

Just before landing in Israel on Friday, Netanyahu told reporters on the plane that Israels strategic security interests in the region will be improved as a result of his three-day trip to Washington.

There is a joint strategic understanding and deep friendship, Netanyahu said of his conversation with Trump on Wednesday. The two men have known each other since the 1980s.

It was an excellent meeting.

It will have a large impact on our security, said Netanyahu, adding that under the Trump administration US-Israel ties, which are already strong, will be vastly improved.

Netanyahu said there will be joint follow-up meetings between his staff and members of the Trump administration on the issues that were raised during his trip. Aside from Iran, there were also security discussions on Syria, ISIS and terrorism.

In his weekly address to the American people on Friday, Trump said, The United States also reaffirmed our unbreakable bond this week with our cherished ally, Israel.

It was an honor to welcome my friend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House.

I affirmed to the prime minister Americas commitment to working with Israel and our allies and partners toward greater security and stability. The threat of terrorism and believe me, it is a threat must be confronted and defeated, and we will defeat it.

We share with Israel a deep conviction that we must protect all innocent human life, Trump said.

In an interview with Fox News before leaving Washington on Thursday, Netanyahu said the meeting with Trump was an historic one, best described as a meeting of the minds and of the hearts.

Israel and the US always had a strong alliance, Netanyahu said, but now we have an even stronger alliance.

There is a change coming to the Middle East when it comes to Israels relationship with its neighbors due to the rise of radical Islam, with ISIS leading radical Sunnis and Iran leading radical Shiites, Netanyahu said.

The moderate Arab world is threatened by both, Netanyahu continued, as he explained that these countries view Israel as a country with a strong military that can stand against these threats, particularly Irans quest for hegemony in the region.

As a result, they do not view us as their enemy but increasingly they see us as their ally against a common threat, the prime minister said. In my conversation yesterday with President Trump, he saw things in the same way and that opens up opportunities, he added.

With regard to the nuclear deal with Iran, Netanyahu said Iran has become more dangerous since it was signed, is better funded and has sponsored more terrorism.

Now they are going to build ICBMs that can reach the US and have the multiple warheads to do that. That is horrible, it is dangerous for America, dangerous for Israel and dangerous for the Arabs.

Everyone now understands it and there is an American president that understands, and we are talking about what to do about this common threat, Netanyahu said.

At Wednesdays joint press conference with Netanyahu, Trump said, One of the worst deals Ive ever seen is the Iran deal. My administration has already imposed new sanctions on Iran, and I will do more to prevent Iran from ever developing I mean ever a nuclear weapon.

During Netanyahus time in Washington, there were issues raised that remain unresolved, including Israeli settlement construction and a request for the US to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

The US has asked Israel to hold back on settlement building. A mechanism is now being developed between the two governments, with the help of Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer, to come to an agreement with regard to such activity.

In an interview with Channel 2 on Friday, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said it was important to reach such an understanding with the US. He also cautioned politicians to refrain from their calls for unlimited building in Judea and Samaria, or to annex portions of Area C of the West Bank.

If someone thinks that you can apply Israeli sovereignty over all of Judea and Samaria or the blocs or build indefinitely without an understanding with the White House, he is mistaken, Liberman said.

In an interview with Channel 2 on Friday, Liberman said it is important to reach such an understanding with the US. He also cautioned politicians to refrain from their calls for unlimited building in Judea and Samaria or to annex portions of Area C of the West Bank.

The two leaders from enemy states were set to take part in a session entitled Old crises, new Middle East along with Saudi Arabias Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.

The presentation was announced Friday despite the fact that Israel currently does not have diplomatic relations with Iran or Saudi Arabia. While Israel’s connection with Iran is a hostile one, Israel has an informal connection with Saudi Arabia due to their shared interests on the issue of threat posed by Iran.

Now, instead of having the four speakers together for a single session, with the BBCs Lyse Doucet moderating, organizers have cancelled the session and replaced it with four separate statements by the leaders.

Zarif is now set to speak at 9 am, with a panel on US policy following at 9.20am and Liberman speaking at 10.05 am with Cavusoglu and Jubeir after.

Speaking to Channel 2 news from Munich on Friday, Liberman said he had been looking forward to the panel, hoping to say exactly “what I think about the Ayatollah’s [supreme leader] regime in Tehran.”

“I hope he will be in the hall when I’m speaking and hear what I think about the ayatollah’s regime in Tehran, and everything I said to the other defense ministers whom I met – the greatest danger to the stability of the entire Middle East is Iran.”

During the conference Liberman is also set to meet with British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon,

German Defense Minister Dr.Ursula von der Leyen, Canadas Minister of Defense Harjit Sajjan, and Singapores Defense Minister Dr. Ng Eng Hen. Liberman will also meet the foreign ministers of Russia Sergei Lavrov and Moldovas Andrei Galbur, as well as President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the minister of Bavaria Horst Seehofer Lorenz, and the President of Lockheed Martin Marillyn Hewson.

According to a statement put out by his office, Liberman will discuss strengthening security cooperation between Israel and those countries as well as jointly dealing with the threat of regional terrorism.

Radical Islamic terrorism has long been not just a regional problem faced by countries in the Middle East, but a global problem that affects different countries, almost indiscriminately, as part of an insane fanatical campaign against the free world, the statement quoted Liberman as saying, adding that one of the most important factors in dealing with this threat is cooperating across borders and continents, between all governments and relevant security agencies.

On Friday morning Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman met with his American counterpart Gen.James Mattis in Munich for the first time since Mattis assumed his position as Secretary of Defense.

During the meeting, the two discussed several matters, with Iran first and foremost among them. A statement released by Libermans office said that the three central problems facing the two countries and that must be dealt with were “Iran, Iran and Iran.”

Lieberman stated that there is a need to build a genuine and effective coalition to deal with the terrorism that Tehran was spreading throughout the world, including the development of ballistic missiles and its continued attempts to develop nuclear weapons.

Israels Defense Minister also stated that North Korea and Iran are two ends of the axis of evil that also includes Hezbollah and the Assad regime and Iran is the common thread.

Mattis and Liberman agreed that they must act decisively against Iran, a statement put out by Libermans office read.

During their meeting, the two also discussed other security issues related to developments in the Middle East and ways to strengthen cooperation between Washington and Jerusalem in dealing with them.

The two concluded the meeting stating that the two countries are true allies and that they will continue to work together to maintain common interests of the two countries and agreed to meet again soon.

Liberman and Mattis have previously spoken only by phone.

The Munich Security Conference is held every year and hosts heads of state, foreign ministers, and defense ministers from around the globe. Over 30 heads of state of government and 80 foreign and defense ministers along with other officials are expected to attend the conference which opened on Friday.

President Hassan Rouhani has called for greater unity between Shiite and Sunni Muslims during his first official visit to the Arab Gulf since being elected in 2013.

On a visit to Kuwait he was welcomed by Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.

Relations between predominantly Shiite Iran and the mainly Sunni Arab countries of the Gulf,particularly Saudi Arabia, remain strained over their support for opposing sides in Syria and Yemen.

While Iran has supported Bashar al Assads regime in Syria and Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen, the Arab Gulf states namely Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar have supported the Syrian opposition as well as the Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadis embattled government.

Saudi Arabia and Bahrain cut diplomatic relations with Iran in January 2016 after protesters torched the Saudi embassy in Tehran. Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates recalled their envoys in a show of solidarity with Riyadh.

Earlier Rouhani was in Oman for talks with Sultan Qaboos. Oman was prominent in helping mediate secrets US -Iran talks in 2013 that led to the historic nuclear deal signed in Geneva two years later.

But Tehrans January missile test has provoked new sanctions from the Trump administration and caused alarm in Israel at what has been called blatant violations of the deal.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of the danger to his country from Iranian ballistic missiles in his first joint news conference with President Donald Trump.

Israel has been firmly opposed to the United States-Iran nuclear agreement even before it was signed during the Obama administration. Trump was often critical of the deal on the campaign trail.

Two weeks before the Feb. 15 news conference, Iran tested a medium-range ballistic missile that could theoretically reach Israel, as well as many other targets in the region. The Trump administration considers Irans Jan. 29 test to be against the terms of the agreement, while Iran considers it permissible. Days later, the Trump administration announced new sanctions on Iran, specifically citing the missile test as the reason.

At the news conference, Netanyahu said his goal, and Trumps, is to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons.

“I think beyond that,” he said, “President Trump has led a very important effort in the past few weeks, just coming into the presidency. He pointed out there are violations Iranian violations on ballistic missile tests. By the way, these ballistic missiles are inscribed in Hebrew, Israel must be destroyed. Iranian Foreign Minister (Mohammad Javad) Zarif said, Our ballistic missiles are not intended against any country. No, they write on the missiles in Hebrew, Israel must be destroyed.”

A reader asked us to check what Netanyahu said about the Hebrew lettering. So we took a closer look.

The Israeli Embassy in Washington did not reply to an inquiry, but we found news reports from March 2016, such as this one in the Times of Israel, that discussed such an incident. The claim was sourced to the Fars news service, which has been described as a “semi-official” organ of the Iranian government.

We tracked down the Fars article, dated March 9, 2016. It said that the the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had successfully launched two “Qadr H” ballistic missiles at a target in southeastern Iran 1,400 kilometers away. It described the Qadr as a liquid-fueled ballistic missile that “can reach territories as far as Israel.” (The Obama administration condemned the test.)

“One missile,” the Fars post said, “had a message written on it that said in Hebrew, Israel should be wiped off the Earth. ”

The English-language version of the Fars site didnt include the exact words, but the Times of Israel article showed a screenshot of the Farsi-language page, which specifies the Hebrew phrase “Yisrael Tsricha LeHimachek MeAl.”

The Times of Israel noted dryly that “the words mean Israel must be wiped out from. Apparently, Irans Hebrew writers intended to complete the phrase with something to the effect of the face of the Earth but messed up their translation.”

The translation of the Hebrew in the Times of Israel article is accurate, said Michael J. Koplow, policy director of the Israel Policy Forum, a group that advocates for a negotiated two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians.

Koplow and other experts said they see no reason to doubt the accuracy of the Fars post.

“This story has the ring of truth to it because I do not see why Iran would lie about it,” said Michael M. Gunter, a Tennessee Technological University political scientist who studies the region.

We wont quibble over the exact wording, which Netanyahu got wrong but which conveys the same message. But we will raise one caveat.

Hearing Netanyahus comments, one could assume that hes talking about the most recent missile tests from January 2017, rather than the ones from 2016. Not only did his comment about the Hebrew lettering immediately follow a mention of the most recent tests, but he used the present tense to say that “these ballistic missiles are inscribed in Hebrew.”

We found no evidence that the most recent round of tests included missiles with threats written in Hebrew letters.

“It is striking to me that Prime Minister Netanyahu must go back to an Iranian report of a March 2016 ballistic missile test to make his point about malign Iranian intentions,” said Greg Thielmann, a former foreign service officer and Senate Intelligence Committee staffer who is now a board member at the Arms Control Association.

He suggested that the Hebrew lettering may have been “a one-time event, and not necessarily authorized in Tehran.” The botching of the text may suggest that the gambit was ad-hoc “sloganeering” by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, “rather than an explicit policy dictated from the top,” Thielmann said.

Our ruling

Netanyahu said, “President Trump has led a very important effort in the past few weeks, just coming into the presidency. He pointed out there are violations — Iranian violations on ballistic missile tests. By the way, these ballistic missiles are inscribed in Hebrew, Israel must be destroyed. ”

Hes right that there was such an incident (with slightly different wording) during an Iranian ballistic missile launch in 2016. However, its worth noting that, despite Netanyahus implication, there is no evidence of a repeat when Iran undertook its most recent test in 2017. We rate the statement Mostly True.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (L) and Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir address the 53rd Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 19, 2017. (photo credit:ARIEL HERMONI/DEFENSE MINISTRY/REUTERS) Iran on Monday rejected Israeli and Saudi claims that the Islamic Republic was a destabilizing force in the region, saying that it came as no surprise that Jerusalem and Riyadh share the same views. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi made the comments after both Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir each said at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday that Iran constitutes a threat to each of their countries, has not moderated its behavior in the wake of the 2015 nuclear deal and should face renewed economic pressure from the international community. While the Israeli and Saudi ministers stopped short of saying they would cooperate to thwart Iran, Qassemi said that Jerusalem and Riyadh are already working “hand in glove” in the Middle East and their matching assessments given on Sunday came as no surprise. The parallelism between the positions of the Saudi foreign minister and the Israeli war minister on Iran is not coincidental. Many instances of evidence indicate coordination between the two regimes in regional cases, Iranian official news agency Press TV quoted Qassemi as saying. The Iranian official said that Liberman’s and Jubeir’s claims against Iran reflected their countries’ “painful desperation.” Both regimes think they should stir the international atmosphere against Iran as a means of making up for their multitudinous defeats and frustrations in the region, he charged. Qassemi said that Israel’s attempts to enlist a Muslim country in its efforts against Iran were “pathetic.” In addition to Liberman and Jubeir, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif also spoke at Sunday’s Munich Security Conference. While Liberman called for an alliance with Sunni states, Jubeir did not directly respond when asked if he envisions a coalition with Israel against Tehran. Jubeir, who spoke after Liberman and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlet Cavusoglu, pointedly rejected a new Iranian call for a dialogue with Sunni Arab Gulf states, telling the conference that the Islamic Republic is trying to upend the order in the Middle East and seeks the destruction of Saudi Arabia. The Iranians speak of wanting to turn a new page, wanting to look forward, not backward. This is great, but what about the present? he asked. We cant ignore what they are doing in the region. We cant ignore their constitution which calls for the export of the revolution. How can one deal with a nation whose intent is to destroy us? Liberman, meanwhile, accused Iran of trying to undermine Saudi Arabia and termed Maj.-Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Force, the No.1 terrorist in the world. If you ask me, What is the biggest news in the Middle East? I think that [for] the first time since 1948 the moderate Arab world, Sunni world, understands that the biggest threat for them is not Israel, not Jews and not Zionism, but Iran and Iranian proxies, Liberman said, pointing to Hezbollah in Lebanon, Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip and the Houthi militia in Yemen. Ben Lynfield and Anna Ahronheim contributed to this report. Relevant to your professional network? Please share on Linkedin Prev Article Egypt’s top court upholds 10 death sentences over football violence Russian deputy FM to Post: Hezbollah will leave Syria when conflict is over Next Article

MUNICH U.S. Republican senators plan to introduce legislation to impose further sanction on Iran, accusing it of violating U.N. Security Council resolutions by testing ballistic missiles and acting to “destabilize” the Middle East, a U.S. senator said Sunday. “I think it is now time for the Congress to take Iran on directly in terms of what theyve done outside the nuclear program,” Senator Lindsey Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told the Munich Security Conference. Graham said he and other Republicans would introduce measures to hold Iran accountable for its actions. Tensions between Tehran and Washington have risen since a Iranian ballistic missile test which prompted U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to impose sanctions on individuals and entities linked to the country’s Revolutionary Guards. “Iran is a bad actor in the greatest sense of the word when it comes to the region. To Iran, I say, if you want us to treat you differently then stop building missiles, test-firing them in defiance of U.N. resolution and writing ‘Death to Israel’ on the missile. That’s a mixed message,” Graham said. Senator Christopher Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the same panel there was nothing preventing Congress from imposing sanctions beyond those that were lifted as a result of the 2016 nuclear agreement with Iran. Murphy, a Democrat, told the panel that he had backed the nuclear deal in the explicit understanding that it would not prevent Congress from taking actions against Iran outside the nuclear issue. “There’s going to be a conversation about what the proportional response is,” Murphy said, referring to Iran’s missile test. “But I don’t necessarily think there’s going to be partisan division over whether or not we have the ability as a Congress to speak on issues outside of the nuclear agreement.” Murphy said the United States needed to decide whether it wanted to take a broader role in the regional conflict. “We have to make a decision whether we are going to get involved in the emerging proxy war in a bigger way than we are today, between Iran and Saudi,” he said. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Java Zarf told the conference earlier on Sunday that Iran did not respond well to sanctions or threats. (Reporting by Andrea Shalal and John Irish. Editing by Jane Merriman) BAGHDAD/SOUTH OF MOSUL, Iraq U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Sunday launched a ground offensive to dislodge Islamic State militants from their remaining stronghold in Mosul, in the western part of the city, and put an end to their ambitions for territorial rule in Iraq. KUALA LUMPUR Four North Korean suspects in the murder of the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un fled Malaysia on the day he was attacked at Kuala Lumpur airport and apparently killed by a fast-acting poison, police said on Sunday. BEIRUT Syrian government forces fired rockets at a rebel-held area on Damascus’s outskirts on Sunday, pressing an attack that began the day before and has killed up to 16 people, a medical worker and war monitors said.

Liberman and Zarif. (photo credit:MARC ISRAEL SELLEM,REUTERS) Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif said Sunday that Iran would never seek to build a nuclear weapon, taking an apparent shot at Israel for being the true nuclear-armed actor endangering the region. Without naming Israel specifically, Zarif said at the Munich Security Council that there were certain non-members of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty who were spreading accusations about the Iranian nuclear threat. “They have the audacity” to talk about the Iranian nuclear threat when they are “the destabilizing force in the region,” Zarif said. “We will never produce nuclear weapons, period,” Zarif said. The Iranian foreign minister added that Iran had committed to this in the nuclear deal signed with world powers, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), but has yet to receive the reciprocal fulfilling of the deal from the other side. “The international community still owes us,” Zarif stated. In apparent response to US President Donald Trump’s comments that he was putting Iran “on notice” over ballistic missile tests last month, Zarif stated that, “We do not respond well to threats.” Zarif said that under so-called “crippling sanctions,” intended to curb Iran’s construction of centrifuges for enriching uranium, Iran had gone from having 200 centrifuges to having some 20,000 centrifuges. “We don’t respond to threats, we respond to mutual respect,” Zarif said. Republican US Senator Lindsay Graham, speaking on a panel at the conference immediately after Zarif, said that not a word the Iranian foreign minister was saying should be believed. “They’ve been trying to build a nuclear weapon,” Graham said. “If they say they haven’t, they’re lying.” “You don’t build a secret nuclear facility if you don’t want to build a nuclear weapon,” he added. Graham said that Iran was “a bad actor in the greatest sense of the word when it comes to the region,” calling Tehran out specifically for supporting Hezbollah and writing “Death to Israel” on its missiles. “I think it it is now time for the Congress to take Iran on directly in terms of what theyve done outside the nuclear program,” Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee stated. Graham said he and other Republicans would introduce measures to hold Iran accountable for its actions. Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman was originally supposed to speak on the same panel as Zarif, however the event was changed and he spoke later in the day after the Iranian foreign minister. The defense minister accused Iran of trying to undermine stability in every country in the Middle East. Liberman called the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, Qassem Suleimani, “the number one terrorist in the world.” Liberman said that Israel has not seen more moderate behavior from Iran since the signing of the JCPOA. To the contary, he stated, since the signing of the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, Israel has seen: a competition organized in Tehran for the best Holocaust denial cartoon, with a prize of $50,000; parades in Tehran featuring ballistic missiles with Hebrew inscriptions, reading ‘Israel must be wiped out’; a State Department report finding that Iran is the number one state sponsor of terror in the world; Iranian development of ballistic missiles in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 2231; the persecution of Iran’s ethnic and religious minorities; and 600 executions in 2016, often with little or no due process of law. The defense minister said that the Iran nuclear deal was “an attempt to avoid reality,” and we were seeing similar results to what the nuclear deal with North Korea has yielded. He called for world powers to enforce a policy of economic pressure, tough policy and following through on UN resolutions, such as in the case of Iran carrying out ballistic missile tests. Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister also accused Tehran of being the main sponsor of terrorism in the world and a destabilizing force in the Middle East. “Iran remains the single main sponsor of terrorism in the world,” Adel al-Jubeir told delegates at the Munich Security Conference. “Its determined to upend the order in Middle East … (and) until and unless Iran changes its behavior it would be very difficult to deal with a country like this.” Al-Jubeir said Iran was propping up the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, funding the Houthi separatists in Yemen and violent groups across the region. He said the international community needed to set clear “red lines” to halt Iran’s actions. Reuters contributed to this report. Relevant to your professional network? Please share on Linkedin Prev Article ‘Blind sheik’ convicted in 1993 World Trade bombing dies in US prison

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Reuters Iran is continuing its verbal attacks on the United States, with the latest comments coming on Saturday from Mohammad Pakpour, a commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Speaking at a press conference in Tehran and quoted by the semiofficial Fars news agency, the commander warned American officials to be wise and stop threatening Iran with military aggression. “U.S. statesmen should be very wise and avoid threatening Iran because the entire world has admitted this fact that the Americans cannot do such a thing,” said Pakpour, who added that attacking Iran would be unwise. Tensions between Washington and Iran have risen in recent weeks, after the Trump administration imposed new sanctions on 25 individuals and companies connected to Iran’s ballistic missile program and those providing support to the Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Qods Force. The sanctions came in response to a ballistic missile test conducted by Iran last week, in violation of UN Resolution 2231, which bars Iran from conducting ballistic missile tests for eight years and which went into effect after the nuclear deal between Iran and the six world powers was signed. Irans Foreign Ministry reacted angrily to the sanctions, vowing that it too would ensure “legal restrictions” were imposed on the “American individuals and companies which have a role in aiding extremist and terrorist groups or contribute to the suppression and murder of the defenseless people in the region. The countrys Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, later dismissed calls from the Trump administration to cease the countrys ballistic missile tests, and said that Trump had showed the “true face” of America. Iran has also threatened to attack Israel in response to an American attack on Iran. A senior Iranian official recently threatened his country would immediately strike Israel if the United States “makes a mistake” noting that “only 7 minutes is needed for the Iranian missile to hit Tel Aviv.”

The United States will stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons that can be used against it or Israel, Vice President Mike Pence told the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, just days after meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington. Under President [Donald] Trump, the US will remain fully committed to ensuring that Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon capable of threatening our country [or] our allies in the region, especially Israel, Pence said. The issue of Irans threat to the region, Israel and the US was a priority in the series of high-level meetings held in Washington last week, as Netanyahu made his first visit to the Capitol since Trump was inaugurated last month. Netanyahu plans to brief the cabinet about his trip at its weekly meeting on Sunday, before he departs for Australia. While in Washington, Netanyahu spoke with Trump, Pence and congressmen about the dangers of Irans nuclear program and his belief that the deal the Obama administration and five other world powers worked out with Tehran in 2015 to curb its nuclear capacity doesnt mitigate that threat. While the Obama administration had dismissed Netanyahus concerns, Trump and his administration are supportive. Just before landing in Israel on Friday, Netanyahu told reporters on the plane that Israels strategic security interests in the region will be improved as a result of his three-day trip to Washington. There is a joint strategic understanding and deep friendship, Netanyahu said of his conversation with Trump on Wednesday. The two men have known each other since the 1980s. It was an excellent meeting. It will have a large impact on our security, said Netanyahu, adding that under the Trump administration US-Israel ties, which are already strong, will be vastly improved. Netanyahu said there will be joint follow-up meetings between his staff and members of the Trump administration on the issues that were raised during his trip. Aside from Iran, there were also security discussions on Syria, ISIS and terrorism. In his weekly address to the American people on Friday, Trump said, The United States also reaffirmed our unbreakable bond this week with our cherished ally, Israel. It was an honor to welcome my friend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House. I affirmed to the prime minister Americas commitment to working with Israel and our allies and partners toward greater security and stability. The threat of terrorism and believe me, it is a threat must be confronted and defeated, and we will defeat it. We share with Israel a deep conviction that we must protect all innocent human life, Trump said. In an interview with Fox News before leaving Washington on Thursday, Netanyahu said the meeting with Trump was an historic one, best described as a meeting of the minds and of the hearts. Israel and the US always had a strong alliance, Netanyahu said, but now we have an even stronger alliance. There is a change coming to the Middle East when it comes to Israels relationship with its neighbors due to the rise of radical Islam, with ISIS leading radical Sunnis and Iran leading radical Shiites, Netanyahu said. The moderate Arab world is threatened by both, Netanyahu continued, as he explained that these countries view Israel as a country with a strong military that can stand against these threats, particularly Irans quest for hegemony in the region. As a result, they do not view us as their enemy but increasingly they see us as their ally against a common threat, the prime minister said. In my conversation yesterday with President Trump, he saw things in the same way and that opens up opportunities, he added. With regard to the nuclear deal with Iran, Netanyahu said Iran has become more dangerous since it was signed, is better funded and has sponsored more terrorism. Now they are going to build ICBMs that can reach the US and have the multiple warheads to do that. That is horrible, it is dangerous for America, dangerous for Israel and dangerous for the Arabs. Everyone now understands it and there is an American president that understands, and we are talking about what to do about this common threat, Netanyahu said. At Wednesdays joint press conference with Netanyahu, Trump said, One of the worst deals Ive ever seen is the Iran deal. My administration has already imposed new sanctions on Iran, and I will do more to prevent Iran from ever developing I mean ever a nuclear weapon. During Netanyahus time in Washington, there were issues raised that remain unresolved, including Israeli settlement construction and a request for the US to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. The US has asked Israel to hold back on settlement building. A mechanism is now being developed between the two governments, with the help of Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer, to come to an agreement with regard to such activity. In an interview with Channel 2 on Friday, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said it was important to reach such an understanding with the US. He also cautioned politicians to refrain from their calls for unlimited building in Judea and Samaria, or to annex portions of Area C of the West Bank. If someone thinks that you can apply Israeli sovereignty over all of Judea and Samaria or the blocs or build indefinitely without an understanding with the White House, he is mistaken, Liberman said. In an interview with Channel 2 on Friday, Liberman said it is important to reach such an understanding with the US. He also cautioned politicians to refrain from their calls for unlimited building in Judea and Samaria or to annex portions of Area C of the West Bank. Relevant to your professional network? Please share on Linkedin

Avigdor Liberman speaks at the Saban Forum. (photo credit:SABAN FORUM) After a schedule released Friday showed Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman sharing the stage with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Sunday morning at the Munich International Security Conference, organizers have hurriedly rearranged. The two leaders from enemy states were set to take part in a session entitled Old crises, new Middle East along with Saudi Arabias Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. The presentation was announced Friday despite the fact that Israel currently does not have diplomatic relations with Iran or Saudi Arabia. While Israel’s connection with Iran is a hostile one, Israel has an informal connection with Saudi Arabia due to their shared interests on the issue of threat posed by Iran. Now, instead of having the four speakers together for a single session, with the BBCs Lyse Doucet moderating, organizers have cancelled the session and replaced it with four separate statements by the leaders. Zarif is now set to speak at 9 am, with a panel on US policy following at 9.20am and Liberman speaking at 10.05 am with Cavusoglu and Jubeir after. Speaking to Channel 2 news from Munich on Friday, Liberman said he had been looking forward to the panel, hoping to say exactly “what I think about the Ayatollah’s [supreme leader] regime in Tehran.” “I hope he will be in the hall when I’m speaking and hear what I think about the ayatollah’s regime in Tehran, and everything I said to the other defense ministers whom I met – the greatest danger to the stability of the entire Middle East is Iran.” During the conference Liberman is also set to meet with British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon, German Defense Minister Dr.Ursula von der Leyen, Canadas Minister of Defense Harjit Sajjan, and Singapores Defense Minister Dr. Ng Eng Hen. Liberman will also meet the foreign ministers of Russia Sergei Lavrov and Moldovas Andrei Galbur, as well as President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the minister of Bavaria Horst Seehofer Lorenz, and the President of Lockheed Martin Marillyn Hewson. According to a statement put out by his office, Liberman will discuss strengthening security cooperation between Israel and those countries as well as jointly dealing with the threat of regional terrorism. Radical Islamic terrorism has long been not just a regional problem faced by countries in the Middle East, but a global problem that affects different countries, almost indiscriminately, as part of an insane fanatical campaign against the free world, the statement quoted Liberman as saying, adding that one of the most important factors in dealing with this threat is cooperating across borders and continents, between all governments and relevant security agencies. On Friday morning Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman met with his American counterpart Gen.James Mattis in Munich for the first time since Mattis assumed his position as Secretary of Defense. During the meeting, the two discussed several matters, with Iran first and foremost among them. A statement released by Libermans office said that the three central problems facing the two countries and that must be dealt with were “Iran, Iran and Iran.” Lieberman stated that there is a need to build a genuine and effective coalition to deal with the terrorism that Tehran was spreading throughout the world, including the development of ballistic missiles and its continued attempts to develop nuclear weapons. Israels Defense Minister also stated that North Korea and Iran are two ends of the axis of evil that also includes Hezbollah and the Assad regime and Iran is the common thread. Mattis and Liberman agreed that they must act decisively against Iran, a statement put out by Libermans office read. During their meeting, the two also discussed other security issues related to developments in the Middle East and ways to strengthen cooperation between Washington and Jerusalem in dealing with them. The two concluded the meeting stating that the two countries are true allies and that they will continue to work together to maintain common interests of the two countries and agreed to meet again soon. Liberman and Mattis have previously spoken only by phone. The Munich Security Conference is held every year and hosts heads of state, foreign ministers, and defense ministers from around the globe. Over 30 heads of state of government and 80 foreign and defense ministers along with other officials are expected to attend the conference which opened on Friday. Relevant to your professional network? Please share on Linkedin Prev Article Netanyahu temporarily gives up control of communications ministry US and Israel defense ministers meet to discuss ‘Iran, Iran and Iran’ Next Article

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President Hassan Rouhani has called for greater unity between Shiite and Sunni Muslims during his first official visit to the Arab Gulf since being elected in 2013. On a visit to Kuwait he was welcomed by Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. Relations between predominantly Shiite Iran and the mainly Sunni Arab countries of the Gulf,particularly Saudi Arabia, remain strained over their support for opposing sides in Syria and Yemen. While Iran has supported Bashar al Assads regime in Syria and Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen, the Arab Gulf states namely Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar have supported the Syrian opposition as well as the Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadis embattled government. Saudi Arabia and Bahrain cut diplomatic relations with Iran in January 2016 after protesters torched the Saudi embassy in Tehran. Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates recalled their envoys in a show of solidarity with Riyadh. Earlier Rouhani was in Oman for talks with Sultan Qaboos. Oman was prominent in helping mediate secrets US -Iran talks in 2013 that led to the historic nuclear deal signed in Geneva two years later. But Tehrans January missile test has provoked new sanctions from the Trump administration and caused alarm in Israel at what has been called blatant violations of the deal.

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a joint press conference on Feb. 15, 2017. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of the danger to his country from Iranian ballistic missiles in his first joint news conference with President Donald Trump. Israel has been firmly opposed to the United States-Iran nuclear agreement even before it was signed during the Obama administration. Trump was often critical of the deal on the campaign trail. Two weeks before the Feb. 15 news conference, Iran tested a medium-range ballistic missile that could theoretically reach Israel, as well as many other targets in the region. The Trump administration considers Irans Jan. 29 test to be against the terms of the agreement, while Iran considers it permissible. Days later, the Trump administration announced new sanctions on Iran, specifically citing the missile test as the reason. At the news conference, Netanyahu said his goal, and Trumps, is to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons. “I think beyond that,” he said, “President Trump has led a very important effort in the past few weeks, just coming into the presidency. He pointed out there are violations Iranian violations on ballistic missile tests. By the way, these ballistic missiles are inscribed in Hebrew, Israel must be destroyed. Iranian Foreign Minister (Mohammad Javad) Zarif said, Our ballistic missiles are not intended against any country. No, they write on the missiles in Hebrew, Israel must be destroyed.” A reader asked us to check what Netanyahu said about the Hebrew lettering. So we took a closer look. The Israeli Embassy in Washington did not reply to an inquiry, but we found news reports from March 2016, such as this one in the Times of Israel, that discussed such an incident. The claim was sourced to the Fars news service, which has been described as a “semi-official” organ of the Iranian government. We tracked down the Fars article, dated March 9, 2016. It said that the the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had successfully launched two “Qadr H” ballistic missiles at a target in southeastern Iran 1,400 kilometers away. It described the Qadr as a liquid-fueled ballistic missile that “can reach territories as far as Israel.” (The Obama administration condemned the test.) “One missile,” the Fars post said, “had a message written on it that said in Hebrew, Israel should be wiped off the Earth. ” The English-language version of the Fars site didnt include the exact words, but the Times of Israel article showed a screenshot of the Farsi-language page, which specifies the Hebrew phrase “Yisrael Tsricha LeHimachek MeAl.” The Times of Israel noted dryly that “the words mean Israel must be wiped out from. Apparently, Irans Hebrew writers intended to complete the phrase with something to the effect of the face of the Earth but messed up their translation.” The translation of the Hebrew in the Times of Israel article is accurate, said Michael J. Koplow, policy director of the Israel Policy Forum, a group that advocates for a negotiated two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians. Koplow and other experts said they see no reason to doubt the accuracy of the Fars post. “This story has the ring of truth to it because I do not see why Iran would lie about it,” said Michael M. Gunter, a Tennessee Technological University political scientist who studies the region. We wont quibble over the exact wording, which Netanyahu got wrong but which conveys the same message. But we will raise one caveat. Hearing Netanyahus comments, one could assume that hes talking about the most recent missile tests from January 2017, rather than the ones from 2016. Not only did his comment about the Hebrew lettering immediately follow a mention of the most recent tests, but he used the present tense to say that “these ballistic missiles are inscribed in Hebrew.” We found no evidence that the most recent round of tests included missiles with threats written in Hebrew letters. “It is striking to me that Prime Minister Netanyahu must go back to an Iranian report of a March 2016 ballistic missile test to make his point about malign Iranian intentions,” said Greg Thielmann, a former foreign service officer and Senate Intelligence Committee staffer who is now a board member at the Arms Control Association. He suggested that the Hebrew lettering may have been “a one-time event, and not necessarily authorized in Tehran.” The botching of the text may suggest that the gambit was ad-hoc “sloganeering” by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, “rather than an explicit policy dictated from the top,” Thielmann said. Our ruling Netanyahu said, “President Trump has led a very important effort in the past few weeks, just coming into the presidency. He pointed out there are violations — Iranian violations on ballistic missile tests. By the way, these ballistic missiles are inscribed in Hebrew, Israel must be destroyed. ” Hes right that there was such an incident (with slightly different wording) during an Iranian ballistic missile launch in 2016. However, its worth noting that, despite Netanyahus implication, there is no evidence of a repeat when Iran undertook its most recent test in 2017. We rate the statement Mostly True. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/ae08540a-2931-4912-8149-8db6ea117789

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